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Bin Badal Barsaat (1975 Film)
''Bin Badal Barsaat'' is a 1975 Pakistani film starring Zeba and Mohammad Ali. It is directed and produced by Zeenat Begum. The film follows a married couple, Zarina and Judge Akbar Ali, who struggle to have a child. The film also stars Shahid, Sangeeta, Lehri, Nanha, Nirala and Ilyas Kashmiri. Synopsis Zarina (Zeba) and Judge Akbar Ali (Ali) struggle unsuccessfully to have a child. The couple eventually succeeds in having a son, but the child goes missing following a convoluted series of events and ends up in a gang of beggars led by Dada (Ilyas Kashmiri). The child and family are eventually reunited thanks to the efforts of a dancing girl named Gori ( Sangeeta) and her fiancé Badshah. Cast * Zeba as Zarina * Mohammad Ali as Akbar Ali * Shahid as Badshah * Sangeeta as Gori * Ilyas Kashmiri as Dada * Lehri * Nanha * Nirala * Seema Soundtrack The music is composed by the only female composer of Pakistani film industry Shamim Nazli. Retrieved 4 September 2020 Receptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeba
Shaheen Bano (born 10 September 1945), known professionally as Zeba ( ur, ), is a Pakistani actress. She was one of the top stars of the Pakistani film industry in the 1960s and the early 1970s.Profile of Zeba on pakmag.net website Retrieved 26 January 2022 She was voted among 25 of the greatest actors of Asia in a 2010 CNN poll. Early life Zeba's family migrated to Pakistan from India when she was only 3 years old. She received her basic education in Pakistan. She made her screen debut in film ''Chiragh jalta raha'' in 1962. During a career that spanned almost three decades, Zeba appeared in numerous commercially successful as well as critically appreciated films, many of which featured her alongside actor and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Hassan
Mehdi Hassan Khan ( ur, مہدی حسن خاں , translit=) 18 July 1927 – 13 June 2012) was a Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of ghazal singing, Hassan is referred to as the "Shahenshah-e-Ghazal" (Emperor of Ghazal). Known for his "haunting" baritone voice,Mehdi Hassan profile on Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved 31 March 2018 Hassan is credited with bringing ghazal singing to a worldwide audience. He is unique for his melodic patterns and maintaining integrity of the in an innovative way. Born into a family of Kalawant musicians, Hassan was naturally incline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films About Poverty
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Urdu-language Films
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1975 Films
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events *March 26: The film version of The Who's ''Tommy'' premieres in London. *May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, ''Star Wars'', George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic. *June 20: ''Jaws'' is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lollywood
Lollywood ( ur, , translit=lâli vuḍ) refers to Pakistan's film industry based in Lahore, previously the base for both Punjabi and Urdu language film production. Lahore has been the center of Pakistani cinema since the partition of India in 1947. However, with Urdu film hub largely shifting to Karachi by 2007, film industry in Lahore became synonymous with Pakistani Punjabi film Industry. The word "Lollywood" is a portmanteau of "Lahore" and " Hollywood", coined in 1989 by Glamour magazine gossip columnist Saleem Nasir, and is usually used comparatively with respect to other film industries in South Asian cinema. Etymology "Lollywood" is a portmanteau derived from Lahore and "Hollywood", a shorthand reference for the American film industry, Hollywood. History Prior to the 1947 partition of India into the Republic of India and Pakistan, the Lahore film industry was initially part of the British Raj era cinema of India. The Bombay cinema industry (now known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor Jehan
Noor Jehan ( Punjabi: ) (born () Allah Rakhi Wasai ; 23 September 1926 – 23 December 2000; sometimes spelled Noorjehan),Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema,'' British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 166. also known by her honorific title Malika-e-Tarannum (Queen of Melody), was a Punjabi playback singer and actress who worked first in India and then in the cinema of Pakistan. Her career spanned more than six decades (the 1930s–1990s). Considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers in Indian subcontinent, she was given the honorific title of ''Malika-e-Tarannum'' in Pakistan. She had a command of Hindustani classical music as well as other music genres. Along with Ahmed Rushdi, she holds the record for having given voice to the largest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema. She recorded about 20,000 songs in various languages including Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Sindhi. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tassawar Khanum
Tassawar Khanum (born 1950) is a Pakistani Ghazal and playback film singer. She is mostly known for singing in Urdu and Punjabi in Pakistani films and television during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life and career Tassawar Khanum was born in Gujrat, Pakistan. During her childhood she was a neighbor of singer Pervaiz Mehdi who was a good friend of her father. She and her father would often go Pervaiz Mehdi's house while he was practicing. It was the fellow singer Pervaiz Mehdi who asked her father to ensure that Tassawar should receive an education in music after he overheard her copying him while he practiced. After this, she began to take music lessons with sarangi nawaz Ustad Butta Ali Khan. Tassawar Khanum first appeared on Pakistan Television ( PTV). She was popular in the 1970s and 1980s when she sang many super-hit film songs including this mega-hit film song from film ''Rangeela'' (1970), "Wey Sab Taun Sohneya, Hai Wey Mann Mohnya''. Filmography Popular songs * ''Wey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mala (Pakistani Singer)
Naseem Begum ( Punjabi, ur, ; 9 November 1942 – 5 March 1990), known professionally as Mala ( ur, ), was a Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films. In the 1960s, Mala was a 'hit pair for singing duet film songs' with famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and they gave numerous hits to Pakistan film industry. She was also called ''Princess Mala Begum'' as she provided the singing voice for actresses who portrayed roles of royal and upper-class families in films. She sang many popular film songs spanning almost three decades of her singing career in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Mala's career suffered a setback with the arrival of Runa Laila in the Pakistani film industry. Early life Mala's given name was Naseem Begum. She was born on 9 November 1942 in Faisalabad, Punjab. She was the younger sister of music composer ''Shamim Nazli''. Career Mala was interested in singing and music from a young age. Her elder sister happened to be her first music teacher a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabri Brothers
The Sabri Brothers ( Punjabi, ) were a musical band from Pakistan who were performers of Sufi qawwali music and were closely connected to the Chishti Order. They are considered as one of the greatest Sufi qawwali singers of all times. The Sabri Brothers were led by Ghulam Farid Sabri and his brother Maqbool Ahmed Sabri. They are often referred to as ''Shahenshah-e-Qawwali'' (the King of Kings of qawwali) and are also known as ''the roving ambassadors of Pakistan''. The band was initially founded by Maqbool Ahmed Sabri at the age of 11 years and was known as Bacha Qawwal Party. His elder brother Ghulam Farid Sabri joined after insistence from their father. He became the leader of the group and the band soon became known as the Sabri Brothers. They were the first-ever qawwali artists to perform qawwali in United States and other Western countries; they were also the first-ever Asian artists to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1975. Original members * Ghulam Farid Sabri (b. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani Film Industry
Cinema of Pakistan, popularly known as Lollywood ( ur, ), refers to the filmmaking industry in Pakistan. Pakistan is home to several film studios centres, primarily located in its three largest cities – Karachi, Lahore, and Faisalabad. Pakistani cinema has played an important part in Pakistani culture, and in recent years, has begun flourishing again after years of decline, delivering entertainment to audiences in Pakistan and expatriates abroad. Several film industries are based in Pakistan, which tend to be regional and niche in nature. Over 10,000 Urdu feature films have been produced in Pakistan since 1948, as well as over 8000 Punjabi, 6000 Pashto and 2000 Sindhi feature-length films. The first film ever produced was ''Husn Ka Daku'' in 1929, directed by Abdur Rashid Kardar in Lahore. The first Pakistani-film produced was ''Teri Yaad'', directed by Daud Chand in 1948. Between 1947 and 2007, Pakistani cinema was predominately based in Lahore, home to the nation' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Ali (actor)
Mohammad Ali ( ur, مُحمّد علی ; 19 April 1931 – 19 March 2006) was a Pakistani actor. He was known as ''Shahenshah-e-Jazbaat'' ( ur, شہنشاہِ جذبات), meaning ''The Emperor of Emotions''.Remembering Mohammad Ali – the legend of Pakistani films Daily Times (newspaper), 21 March 2018, Retrieved 8 May 2022 A versatile performer, he acted in dramatic, romantic, and historical movies. He was voted among 25 of the greatest actors of Asia in a 2010 poll. Early life Mohammad Ali was born in Rampur,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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